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make surveys. One of these is situated three miles east of Panola, Mississippi, 

 and closely resembles No. 3, Plate XXXVIII. It is accompanied by several remark- 

 able mounds. A few miles south-east of Delta there is a square enclosure of some 

 twenty acres area. It contains several mounds, one of which is forty feet in 

 height, truncated, and ascended by a graded way. Within this enclosure there 

 is also a square excavation, fifteen feet deep, and one hundred feet in diameter. It 

 is surrounded by a low embankment of earth, three feet in height. 



PLATE XXXVIII. No. 4. 



ANCIENT WORKS, PRAIRIE JEFFERSON, LOUISIANA. 



This group of ancient works occurs on Prairie Jefferson, Moorhouse parish, 

 Louisiana. They are minutely described by Prof. C. G. Forshey, in a letter to 

 Prof Silliman of New Haven, published, with the accompanying plan, in the 

 American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. xlix. p. 38. For some interesting 

 facts in addition to this account, acknowledgment is due to Dr. Harrison, pro- 

 prietor of the plantation upon which these remains are situated. 



The works, consisting of a series of mounds and terraces, accompanied by lines 

 of embankment and by excavations, are found near the south-western portion of 

 the prairie, and partly in what is now woodland, though probably at no very 

 remote date free from forests. The mounds are disposed with some degree of 

 regularity in respect to each other, and are of the following dimensions : 



The embankment between E and F is one hundred and thirty-five feet long, 

 fifteen feet broad at the base, and four high. The embankment j k I is ten 

 hundred and fifty feet long, twelve feet broad and from one to three feet high. 



The great mound E has been denominated " the Temple. " It has a level area 

 on its summit fifty-one feet long and forty-five broad, which is reached from the 

 west by the winding graded path X. All its angles are much rounded ; still its 

 four faces are very plainly marked. Since it has been cleared of trees, several 



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